Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... published as ROCHESTER : PORTRAIT OF A RESTORATION POET by John Lane the Bodley Head This revised and reset edition first published 1962 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House , 68–74 Carter Lane London , E.C.4 Printed in Great ...
... published as ROCHESTER : PORTRAIT OF A RESTORATION POET by John Lane the Bodley Head This revised and reset edition first published 1962 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House , 68–74 Carter Lane London , E.C.4 Printed in Great ...
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... published in 1935 under the title , Rochester , Portrait of a Restoration Poet . That book has been out of print for many years . Soon after it was published , I began to find mistakes and deficiencies in it . In the decade following ...
... published in 1935 under the title , Rochester , Portrait of a Restoration Poet . That book has been out of print for many years . Soon after it was published , I began to find mistakes and deficiencies in it . In the decade following ...
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... published early in 1678. If the conjecture about ' ad Aethiopem cygnum ' is cor- rect , Dryden is likely to be referring to an event which happened fairly recently and was still the talk of the Town . The fullest and most authentic ...
... published early in 1678. If the conjecture about ' ad Aethiopem cygnum ' is cor- rect , Dryden is likely to be referring to an event which happened fairly recently and was still the talk of the Town . The fullest and most authentic ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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